TALBOT5560

Mount Edgcumbe ¹
Sunday Feb^y 8^th 1846

My dear Henry

I never answered your letter, though I was very much pleased to receive anything so rare. M^r Sotheron ² did talk a great deal about Harrow to Valletort, ³ & seemed much pleased with him. We get very good accounts of him, & his Tutor seems to be fond of him. He has got up several places in the under shell since Christmas.

I want to inform you what flowers we have now got in the open air. Here is the list. Snowdrops, Crocuses, primroses yellow & lilac double, violets, polyanthus, [Chimonanthus?] fragans, (w^h has never lost it’s leaves at all,) stocks wallflowers, anemones, pink china roses, & even the delicate yellow kind, narcissus, [petisforum?], & several plants of Carnations! The myrtles are as green as in summer & their flowers in bud – & in the Conservatory, the orange trees covered with bloom.

Goodbye Y^r aff^te
Sister Caroline

Shall I have your Talbotypes of the P^c of Wales ⁴ &c, for my next Waiting on the 24^th? it lasts a fortnight –

for Henry